[Neworleans-pm] Windows & .Net

[John Souvestre]

Hi David.

 

I actually did the VB thing.  Just hate to do it that way, however.

 

John

    John Souvestre - New Orleans LA - (504) 454-0899

 

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John
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On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:37 PM, John Souvestre wrote:





Hi.

 

I'd like to post a question.

 

The other day I wanted to call a .Net method from Perl (Strawberry Perl on
Windows 7).  I didn't see an easy way.  I understand that Active State has
out an interface but it is part of their package.

 

I have used the Win32 and Win32::API modules for various misc things.  I
understand that Win32::OLE does well for OLE interfacing.  I'm surprised
that there isn't a generic .Net module too.

 

Am I silly to be using Strawberry instead of Active State?  About half of
what I do is for Windows (more, recently) and the other half for Linux.  I
prefer the command line interface as I have an editor I'm comfortable with.

 

I did try Active State a few years ago when I was just starting with Perl.
I don't believe that you could use CPAN modules then, only theirs.  But I
understand that they have opened that up.

 

John

 

 

Never used strawberry perl before.  Have used Active State, it's not that
bad.  When I did they used ppm for modules.  I never had a problem finding
the packages I needed.  As much as it pains me to say it, what about
wrapping the .net method in a helper vb script and then calling that from
perl with system, as Joey suggested, or backticks, etc?

 

DJ

 

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